RE: Drug War. Fear. Libertarians. #TimesUp
I understand your frustration with the federal government. Believe me.
As a Libertarian myself, I too believe that we need a very limited government, rather than what our federal government has become: a bloated bureaucracy that spends way too much money we don't have, either printed or borrowed from countries that are not true allies, on programs and agencies (foreign and domestic) we don't need. However, if you understand human history, it is not possible to exist peacefully without some form of government. Otherwise the inevitability is anarchy, which is among the gravest assaults on the liberties of the individual and of the minority. Anarchy is a vehicle that yields only to mob rule at the very expense of the minority. If men were angels, then they wouldn't need government. Men are not angels, therefore we need government.
I think it's important to understand that the U.S. Constitution is a document meant preserve liberty through its very framing and structure or government; by separation of powers and of checks and balances. Sure we have a Bill of Rights, but a Bill of Rights is only as good as the framed government to back and uphold it.
While yes, we often times see many abuses and perversions due to corruption, but it's nothing that can't be undone through legislative, judicial, and/or executive process.
Imagine how much worse our problems would be if the Federal Government was dissolved? And if you dissolved it, what would replace it?
Nothing. What's the problem? State government isn't big enough for you?
I am absolutely in favor of State government's rights. But to dissolve the Federal Government, and to just have individual state governments sounds a lot like the Articles of Confederation...and we know that failed and was replaced by 1789.
Why don't you just be frank and tell everyone you want rulers and to rule people?
What are your thoughts on the recent shutdown?
We don't need rulers to have rules.
I rule myself every day without needing masters to tell me what to do.
Government isn't the problem, it's when you let people govern you that it becomes a problem.
Govern yourself. You have to whether you want to or not. You don't need anyone to tell you that.
The only checks and balances left is the balance of power between ruling parties, who carefully tiptoe around powers that would crush them, while crushing everything they can get away with.
Freedom.